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Competence Center BIOSPEC

Established as a comprehensive group in 2006 in the Forschungszentrum Jülich, method development and analysis are conducted for internal and external customers. A focus lies on the development of newly established analytical methods for R&D projects of the research center, the work on own or partnered projects of the founding institutes in the research center as well as the overal service analyticyl for the whole Forschungszentrum Jülich.

We also advice and support customers for the choice of proper sample preparation techniques and further analytical methods, are involved in experimental designs regarding analytical aspects, interpret the results obtained fro mthe analysis and recommend further steps if appropriate.

With regard to contents, we focus on the structure elucidation of signalling compounds and metabolites in herbal and bacterial metabolism, the characterization of the organic carbon in soil, the characterization of proteins and of pyrolytic carbon in different matrices.

Quantifications and the determination of the 14C-activity in molecules round ab our spectrum.